Researchers Demo Flippable-Page E-book Reader

Posted by timothy on Wednesday June 25, 2008 @09:13AM from the penny-gadget-would-like-royalties dept.

holy_calamity writes "E-readers are getting better but still limit users to keyboard-style interaction. Researchers at Berkeley and Maryland Universities have changed that with a reader that has two 'pages.' The two displays can be moved like a real book's pages to leaf through a document, or detached to compare and share virtual pages. If they are folded back to create a tablet with displays on each side, you can turn it over to flip pages. A video shows it in action." You may be reminded of the promised second-generation OLPC device, which looks somewhat similar.

2 of 101 comments (clear)

Min score:

Reason:

Sort:

Re:Oblig by Alain+Williams · 2008-06-25 09:43 · Score: 5, Funny

Its called a library.
wow, who would have thought! by speedtux · 2008-06-25 10:09 · Score: 5, Funny

Amazing research! With two screens, you can display two facing pages, or two different documents, and you can even rotate pages.
What amazing innovations will they think of next?